Sepoy

A Sepoy is an Indian musketeer.

History
Sepoys had a history of serving under foreign powers in addition to the Mughal Empire, fighting under the VOC and British East India Company. In 1857, many mutinied in the First Indian War of Independence when the British forced them to use cartridges containing tabooed pig fat, and they were crushed. Sepoys continued to play an integral part in the British Army well into World War I and even World War II, and they stopped serving foreign forces with the end of British rule in 1947.